Menards in Crestwood Helps Children with Cancer

Menards in Crestwood recently designed a local store-wide holiday toy drive fundraiser as part of its charitable giving event at the Crestwood location. Menards encouraged customers to purchase a new toy from Menards with the intent of donating it to the Treasure Chest Foundation. The holiday toy drive was designed to raise toys for the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation. The event raised 100’s of toys for children fighting cancer.

POTCF Founder and CEO Colleen Kisel is especially grateful to Menards in Crestwood for asking their customers to donate to the holiday toy drive. “Thanks to the overwhelming success of Menards event this year will be happier for the brave children who benefit from our services across the nation,” said an appreciative Ms. Kisel.

The POTCF is a unique organization whose services impact more than 14,600 young cancer patients in 61cancer treatment centers in 20 states across the nation and in the District of Columbia. Nowhere else in the nation does such a program exist. Colleen Kisel founded the organization in 1996 after her then seven-year-old son Martin had been diagnosed with leukemia in 1993. Ms. Kisel discovered that giving her son a toy after each procedure provided a calming distraction from his pain, noting that when children are diagnosed with cancer their world soon becomes filled with doctors, nurses, chemotherapy drugs, surgeries and seemingly endless painful procedures. Martin celebrated his 27th anniversary of remission from the disease in March of 2020.

If you would like further information about the Treasure Chest Foundation, please contact Colleen Kisel at 708-687-TOYS (8697) or visit the Foundation’s web site at www.treasurechest.org.